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Letter from Leonard Bachman, Assistant Surgeon General, Acting Director, Health Services Administration, Bureau of Medical Services to Dr. Charles F. Blankenship, Medical Director, retired, September 10, 1981

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Title: Letter from Leonard Bachman, Assistant Surgeon General, Acting Director, Health Services Administration, Bureau of Medical Services to Dr. Charles F. Blankenship, Medical Director, retired, September 10, 1981
Creator: Bachman, Leonard: author
Date Created and/or Issued: 1981-09-10
Contributing Institution: California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection: CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information: All request for permission to publish must be submitted in writing to California State University, Sacramento, University Library, Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives as the owner of the physical item and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained. Further information available online: www.lib.csus.edu/scua
Description: Letter urging Dr. Charles F. Blankenship to publish his experiences working in the Public Health Service with circa 1942 incarcerated Japanese Americans.
In 1942, Charles Blankenship, a physician with the U. S. Public Health Service and medical consultant for the Service Command, United States Army in the San Francisco Regional Office, was given the assignment to inspect all Japanese American incarcerees from the Southern California sector for medical conditions before or as they entered the Santa Anita Racetrack Assembly Center, and later Manzanar, Gila River, and Rohwer incarceration camps.
Type: text
Format: Correspondence
1 page, 11 x 8.5 inches, typescript
application/pdf
Identifier: sac_blank_0001
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/54597
Language: English
Subject: Executive orders--United States
World War II--Mass Removal ('Evacuation')
World War II--Mass removal ('Evacuation')--'Evacuation Day
World War II--Mass removal ('Evacuation')--Preparation
World War II--Temporary Assembly Centers--Facilities, services, and camp administration
Place: Hyattsville, Maryland
Source: California State University, Sacramento, Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Relation: California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
Charles Blankenship Collection

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